Author Archives: Yours Truly

YES INDEED! Not as bad as it could be, but still pretty incomprehensible. Denby is generally kinder to women than Lane, but is also more likely to write about comedy and thus do it poorly, so it was always gonna … Continue reading →

Ah, the boys of the New Yorker. You’ve gotta love ’em. Wait, do I? Do I have to love them? I have been increasingly irritated by the New Yorker, my all-time favorite publication, and its admirably staunch refusal to feature … Continue reading →

Well! If I have ever used the phrase “run, don’t walk,” to tell you to do something, I have never meant it more than I do now, when I say run, don’t walk, to your nearest cinema multiplex, and pay … Continue reading →

In honor of me about to see “Bridesmaids”–as you should all similarly be about to do (VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS, PEOPLE, RALPH NADER TAUGHT US THIS)–let us all bask in the terrible gender stereotype of the rom-com female, who, as … Continue reading →

1. Le Petit Soldat: Hilarious in light of my colleague’s recent remarks on Jean Luc Godard, but it must be pointed out that I share a Netflix queue with my husband, a pretentious film scholar, and that thus our queue … Continue reading →

This is a 1939 biopic of the eponymous president made by John Ford, who you may remember from such John Wayne movies as “The Searchers” and that one where they kill all the Indians (also true of “The Searchers”). The … Continue reading →